This weeks picks: Misc Ramblings/Rants

Games this week in the WCHA

01/04/08

Colorado College at Wisconsin
North Dakota at St. Cloud State
Michigan Tech at Mercyhurst
Minnesota Duluth at Bemidji State
Wayne State at Minnesota

01/06/08

Colorado College at Wisconsin
North Dakota at St. Cloud State
Michigan Tech at Mercyhurst
Minnesota Duluth at Bemidji State
Wayne State at Minnesota

Last week 9-9-0
Year 59-45

WCHA does well in Holiday Tourneys

The WCHA proved once against that it is a top notch league by going 10-5-3 overall in the recent holiday tourney play. I think this record speaks volumes about the type of league that the WCHA is. I am sick and tired of fans from other leagues disrespecting the WCHA. If you look the power rankings and the KRACH you will see that the Strength of Schedule of the WCHA speaks for itself our league leaders are not lining up against and beating up on a bunch of weak sisters of the poor cup cakes. The WCHA is playing top notch competition and beating them. While the CCHA’s top teams are probably deserving of their rankings they are not playing a lot of tough teams.
This is the stupidest thing I have read all week: USCHO

IMO the WCHA is overrated and the only reason they have 7 teams in the top 20 is because of what the conference has done the past 5 years. To be frank they have 4 really good teams and a handful of mediocre teams that are ranked because they beat up on each other and the conference is overrated. SCSU is a solid team, but they lost some high power players last year. DU, CC, and ND are excellent teams but after that, Minnesota and Wisconsin are mediocre and in the top 20 because of their name. Facts are facts; it will all play out in the end. SCSU does pose some threats because of their team speed, wish I could make it up there for the tourney.

First off if the WCHA is such a overrated league why has the WCHA won 5 of the last 7 NCAA titles. Also if the WCHA is so week why did it take (2) overtimes for Michigan to beat MTU and Miami (1) overtime to beat SCSU. If you use the logic above Michigan and Miami should have run both of those WCHA patsies out of the building.